Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

When you give, it comes back to you.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

A President cannot always be popular.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.